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- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
Short Intensive Program (SIP) Recap: Climate Adaptation From January 18th through January 21st, approximately 40 students gathered in Aldrich Hall for a SIP on Climate Adaptation. This course was led by HBS Professor John Macomber with...
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- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
colleagues measured how the big firms lobbied on proposed accounting regulations. His paper, coauthored with HBS doctoral student Abigail M. Allen and Boston College accounting professor Sugata Roychowdhury,...
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- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Not for Profits
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives. At least that's the impression...
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- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
Summing Up Are leadership and followership joined at the hip? It seems impossible to separate the two. They are reflective of one another. These are two of the predominant opinions expressed in one way or another by respondents to this...
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by Jim Heskett
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
School's U.S. Competitiveness Project. Rivkin is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. “Study after study has shown that a country's long-term prosperity depends on the quality of its human capital” Rivkin and fellow HBS faculty View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
the rising opportunity cost of staying in school and the perceived lack of economic relevance of staying in school—that fosters as much as a 50 percent dropout rate by Class V. Q: How did your prior business experience prepare you for...
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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
may file for an initial public offering by the end of 2011, according to the New York Times. "Groupon has attracted remarkable interest," says Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman. "With the economy...
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- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
Comments were replete with advice to leaders regarding honesty, candor, and an optimistic bias. Zack Allen advised, "Honesty is the best policy (but it) does not mean being a nay-sayer or a wet blanket." Peter Bowie suggested...
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by Jim Heskett
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
back to your community? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Better, Not Perfect: Preface By Max Bazerman In 1993, when I was on the faculty of Northwestern University, I gave a talk at a conference on behavioral...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
when life goes back to normal. Forward-thinking leaders can run better organizations by creating conditions that allow customers to be more helpful. When service provision is a true partnership and customers are pitching in, employees...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2011
- News
Check Your Charity!
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
global economy and the Internet were cited by some as being responsible for the current dilemma. John van Heteren paraphrased several respondents when he opined that "I believe that the existing definition in your article was not...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Books. Before Penguin was founded by Allen Lane in 1935, serious literature—"good books"—was expensive and bound in hardcover; only lurid fiction was sold in paperback. "The good books were...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
system?" Ajay Kumar Gupta put it this way: "I believe revealing compensation ratio(s) will help inculcate values, honesty, and accountability in the organization." Others were less sanguine. Zach Allen described it as a...
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by Jim Heskett